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Michelle Obama’s fashion savvy may earn her a spot on a future cover of Vogue magazine.
But her political influence has already won over Bellingham, Washington based publishing company Bluewater Productions, which plans to feature the future first lady in the third book of its Female Force comic book series...............
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Michelle Obama joins female forces Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin, whose biographical comic books will be released early next year as part of the series.
A Syrian site bombed by Israel last year had features resembling those of a nuclear reactor site, the UN nuclear watchdog says in a report.
But the International Atomic Energy Agency did not exclude the possibility the site was being used for purposes unrelated to nuclear activity.
In the first report on its findings in Syria, the IAEA said “significant” quantities of uranium were also found.
Syria has always maintained the site was a disused military building.
Israeli warplanes flattened the facility in the Syrian desert in September 2007 on suspicion that it was part of a covert nuclear weapons programme.
IAEA inspectors visited the bombed al-Kibar site in June, where they took samples that appear to have contained the radioactive material, but Damascus has blocked any follow-up trips.
According to the confidential report, a copy of which was obtained by the BBC, Syria says the uranium found there was residue from the Israeli missiles used in the air-raid.
I sit in solidarity
Participants from sanitation and hygiene groups sit on toilets in the German capital’s central railway station on World Toilet Day.
Ironing posts all ‘round!
Zawahiri called Obama a house slave, which other translators changed to house Negro, in condemning Obamas election.
..."the direct opposite of honorable black Americans like Malcolm X,”
The term they’re searching not to use is ”house ni**er”, yanno - the same term Banana-Man Belafonte used to describe Colon Powell and Condi Rice…
Full transcript [PDF] of ol’ BumpBoy’s rant spew formal statement of insanity here
“You were born to a Muslim father, but you chose to stand in the ranks of the enemies of the Muslims, and pray the prayer of the Jews, although you claim to be Christian, in order to climb the rungs of leadership in America...”
Obama’s insightful, forceful response?
We are pleased to see the respect for America has increased across the world.
Ok - I made that up. His real response was a diplomatic and forceful.
*crickets*
Today’s teenagers and young adults are far more likely than their parents to believe they’re great people, destined for maximum success as workers, spouses and parents, suggests a report comparing three decades of national surveys.
And these so-called Millennials or Gen Y young people may be heading for a fall when their self-esteem is punctured by reality, says psychologist Jean Twenge of San Diego State University. She examined changes from 1975 to 2006 in yearly surveys, given to thousands of high school seniors by University of Michigan researchers.
Compared with the Baby Boomers who were seniors in 1975, 12th-graders surveyed in 2006 were much more confident they’d be “very good” employees, mates and parents, and they were more self-satisfied overall, say Twenge and co-author W. Keith Campbell of the University of Georgia. Between half and two-thirds of the Gen Y teens gave themselves top ratings, compared with less than half in their parents’ generation. The report is in Psychological Science.
Boomer parents “are more likely than their parents were to praise children and maybe overpraise them,” Twenge says.
The tree-sit at UC Berkeley has been over for two months. The trees are long gone, and construction of the $125 million sports training center for the Cal Bears will start when the football season ends next month.
But the legal troubles for those who sat in trees or aided the tree sitters during the 21-month protest of the sports training center are far from over.
On Monday, nine of the 11 people who violated a court order and were cited by police, either on the ground or in the trees, were sentenced by Judge Marshall Whitley in Alameda County Superior Court..........
Loser tree sitting tards, this song’s for you.......
Cute straight guys in black leotards & pumps = crazy delicious
Although other Weather Underground members committed acts that resulted in deaths, including the accidental deaths of some Weather Underground members, Ayers argues that he only committed crimes against property - property that including the Pentagon, the United States Capitol and New York City Police Headquarters.
After years of living on the lam, charges against them were dropped because of prosecutorial misconduct, which should give you young’uns an idea of how messed-up politics, prosecutions and police relations were in those days, especially in matters involving J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI.
After that matter was settled, Ayers and family have been model citizens for more than 20 years, except for one thing that drives a lot of people wild: He’s never apologized for his acts of violence.
Steven Emory Butcher was convicted of starting fires in 2006 and 2002 in Los Padres National Forest. He is sentenced to 45 months in prison and ordered to pay more than $100 million in restitution.
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Butcher was found guilty of two felony counts of starting fires and three misdemeanor counts of allowing a fire to escape his control, violating restrictions by building a fire on federal forest land and smoking in a federal forest.
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Windsor said Butcher “never intended any harm to occur” and “feels horrible” about starting the forest blazes…
It’s not often one stumbles across a really, really good rant.
Today’s your lucky day.
Im done with liberals, lefties, marxists, democrats - call yourselves whatever. FOAD. I no longer want to dialogue with you (Mainly because to you it never means anything but keep letting me nag away until you cave in from weariness if nothing else - so, gonna be hard to talk with a busted jaw, eh wot?), have a beer, kiss and make up, or anything.
F*ck.
Off.
Your vision of Amerika is not my vision of America, nor what the founders intended. Youve perverted it. So eat sh*t and f*cking die.
(No, I did the “*” thing.)
And I detest you, and hold you in the deepest contempt. I resent having to breathe the same air as you. You and I are not brothers, friends, or countrymen - in fact, youre not even the same species as me, you subhuman oxygen thieves. I wonder why there isnt a bounty on you, but probably because to pay what you are worth wouldnt cover the cost of the bullet it would take to put you out of respectable peoples misery, you immoral filth. If you were on fire, I would step around you rather than waste the time to p*ss on you and put it out, and Id charge your relatives for the disposal of your body, as well as fine your estate because your screams of pain were noise pollution.
Its YOU I hate, though. I dont have Obama Derangement Syndrome - I have Synchophantic Lemmingish Obama SUPPORTER Derangement Syndrome. Get it right, *sstard.
This sh*t is non-negotiable.
What? Lefty *sshat, are you still here? I finished with you paragraphs back.
You may leave now, and no, Im not interested in your comments.
If you had anything intellegent to say, youd be a conservative.
*pant*pant*pant* [wipes blood from axe]
A thing of beauty, indeed.
..........So anxious and indignant were we about Michelle getting attacked for saying anything about America that conservatives could turn into mud, we hardly looked south of her neck. I noted her business suits and the fact she hardly ever wore pants (unlike Hillary). As I gradually relaxed, as Michelle strode onto more stages and people started focusing on her clothes and presence instead of her patriotism, it dawned on me—good God, she has a butt! “Obamas baby (mama) got back,” wrote one feminist blogger. “OMG, her butt is humongous!” went a typical comment on one African-American online forum, and while it isn’t humongous, per se, it is a solid, round, black, class-A boo-tay. Try as Michelle might to cover it with those Mamie Eisenhower skirts and sheath dresses meant to reassure mainstream voters, the butt would not be denied.............
A fight that broke out last Thursday in Eshleman Hall may be classified as a hate crime pending further investigation by police.
Police said racial remarks were made during the altercation-a result of Palestinian flags that were hung from a second-floor balcony overlooking a pro-Israel concert-that may cause investigators to classify the fight as a hate crime.
“We’re looking into the possibility of it being a hate crime, based on the statements (made to police by) Palestinian students,” said UCPD Assistant Chief Mitch Celaya. ”Clearly these two groups have some conflict.”.........
Glass Bead Collective, Twin Cities Indymedia, and other independent media activists have released a new film, ‘Terrorizing Dissent’, an expos of events at the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota.
